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Billy Newport

Experience with FSD 13.2.9 in 2026 Tesla Model Y after 2k miles

I purchased a 2026 Tesla Model Y, LR AWD with FSD about 3 weeks ago. Since purchasing, I’ve done about 2.3k miles at this time. About 700…

Jul 3

Jul 3

Apples paper saying LLMs are limited, my own thoughts

Jun 10

Jun 10

Hard pass: Deepseek R1 Qwen3 8B 0528 tested for document analysis

This is the next test showing how LLMs perform answering questions against an autobiography document. I have tested the following LLMs at…

Jun 9

Jun 9

The $4,000/Month Co-Pilot: Why Your AI Tool is More Important Than the Model.

The real cost of AI-powered coding isn’t the subscription. It’s the tokens. And the tool you choose to manage them will make or break your…

Jun 4

Jun 4

The 200 Trillion Parameter Challenge: What Real Human-Level AI Might Actually Cost

I was listening to a Dwarkish podcast with some Anthropic researchers and heard several thing to cause a mental reset for me. I had…

May 27

May 27

New winner: Qwen3–30B-A3B takes the crown for document Q&A

Up to now, the Deepseek-Qwen-32B-R1 is the best local LLM for asking questions against a large document that I’ve tested. I use a large…

May 1

May 1

LLMs already seem to have conceptual models

Anthropics latest paper on the biology of LLMs is eye opening. (Ignacio de Gregorio just did a great piece on it). Yan LeCun has been…

Apr 5

Apr 5

Apple’s M3 Ultra Mac Studio Misses the Mark for LLM Inference

I wanted to love the M3 Ultra Mac Studio — 512 GB of RAM sounds like an LLM playground — but after testing and a bit of math, it’s a $10k…

Mar 8

Mar 8

DeepSeek R1 32B takes the lead for local document analysis

I have been ranking large language models (LLMs) based on their ability to answer questions about my autobiography, a 45k token document. I…

Feb 12

Feb 12

New gaming rig, the Ally X

I usually gamed on a nintendo switch. Zelda, breath of the wild was the game I played most. Recently, I saw the buzz around diablo 4…

Feb 10

Feb 10

Billy Newport

Billy Newport

Creator of DataSurface. Ex IBM Distinguished Engineer, Ex Goldman Sachs Managing Director. "Expert" in data warehousing and data platforms in general.

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